Israel's ambassador to Sweden has been summoned by Sweden's foreign office to
discuss the diplomatic discord following an article in a national newspaper
claiming Israeli soldiers harvest the organs of dead Palestinians. The
diplomatic spat has its source in the decision by the Aftonbladet
newspaper to publish the article which details allegations of the systematic
harvesting of the organs of Palestinian men. The Israeli foreign minister
Avigdor Lieberman compared the allegations to old antisemitic lies. "It is
regrettable that the Swedish foreign ministry does not intervene when it comes
to a blood libel against Jews, which reminds one of Sweden's conduct during
World War II when it also did not intervene," an Israeli government statement
quoted Lieberman as saying.

Sweden's foreign minister Carl
Bildt has rejected calls from Israel for the government to distance itself
from the newspaper article. Writing on his blog,
Bildt argues that Sweden's free press and tradition of free speech are the best
defense against "breaches of judgment, bad taste and transgressions of core
societal values." "There are calls from some quarters in Israel that we in some
way or another should take an official position to distance ourselves from this
article or even to intervene to prevent such an article being published," Bildt
states. "But our country does not work that way - and neither should it." The
foreign minister concludes by defending the importance of protecting free
speech.

The fact that the anti-Israeli and anti-American writer Helle
Klein, for many years the political editor of Aftonbladet, at her blog
also speaks warmly of "free speech" is such an extreme case of hypocrisy that it
simply cannot go unanswered. Free speech does not exist in Sweden. Although some
countries such as Britain and Belgium are trying hard to claim the title, I
would personally rate Sweden as being probably the most totalitarian and
politically repressive country in the entire Western world as of 2009, and
Aftonbladet has made substantial contributions to this repressive
climate. Sweden has huge problems caused by mass immigration, and Muslim
immigration in particular, but speaking honestly about this is absolutely taboo
among the mainstream media. According to journalist Karen Jespersen,
Helle Klein has stated that "If the debate is [about] that there are problems
caused by refugees and immigrants, we don't want it." Opinion polls have
revealed that two out of three Swedes doubt whether Islam can be combined with
Swedish society, yet not one party represented in parliament has been genuinely
critical of the immigration policies, and there is virtually no real debate
about Multiculturalism and Islam.

As I have stated in my essay Why Europeans Should Support
Israel, the demonization of Israel should be rejected not just because
of Israel, but because of Europe. The very same people who are demonizing
Israelis are also demonizing native Europeans who resist the Islamization of
their lands and the state-sponsored colonization of their countries by alien
peoples. The truth is that Israelis defend themselves so that their daughters do
not have to suffer rape at the hands of Muslim Jihadists, the way the
authorities in Western European countries, and in Sweden in particular, allow to
happen every single day. Here are a few relevant quotes from the chapter The
Case of Sweden, taken from my book Defeating
Eurabia. I suggest that Israelis send some of these quotes to
Aftonbladet, Helle Klein and Carl Bildt and challenge them with the
information it contains:

The Swedish organization
Expo has demonstrated a willingness to “share information” with radical groups
of “anti-Fascists” in Antifascistisk Action (AFA). The thugs of AFA in the
spring of 2008 destroyed
the car of an elderly woman and wrote “nasse“ (Nazi) on top of it. As it
turned out, they picked the wrong car. Yet years of such attacks against private
citizens have not prompted the authorities to crack down on their
activities.

Leading newspaper Aftonbladet has close ideological
ties to the Social Democrats, the country’s dominant party for most of the past
century. Helle Klein, its political editor-in-chief from 2001 to 2007, during a
demonstration organized by Islamic and anti-racist organizations in December
2006 stood in front of a banner which read “A Sweden for all - Stop the Nazi
violence“ and held a speech warning against Islamophobia in the media. Klein
has voiced sympathy for terrorist organization Hamas
in her editorials while warning against the threat posed to world peace by
Israeli aggression and the Christian Right in the USA.
Hamas is a Fascist organization openly calling for mass murder of Jews. Violent
attacks against Jews in Europe in 2008 are to an overwhelming degree caused by
Muslim immigration, which is encouraged by the EU and the national political
elites. The irony of warning against “Nazi violence” while showing sympathy for
an organization that wants to finish what the Nazis started apparently doesn’t
strike Ms. Klein.

One of Klein’s fellow columnists at Aftonbladet,
the long-time Communist Robert Aschberg, is the publisher of Expo
magazine. Leading Expo member Charles Westin in October 2007 published the book
Brunt! (“brown,” as in “Fascist”), where he let members of AFA contribute
some of their intelligence regarding “right-wing extremists,” among them people
associated with the legal party the Sweden Democrats. In addition to Mr. Westin,
the book was co-authored by Mats Deland, who is a journalist in
Aftonbladet. Why is it considered OK that a representative of one of
Scandinavia’s largest newspapers, with ties to the country’s largest political
party, thus associates himself openly with an organization known for physically
assaulting members of a legal opposition party, even in their private
homes?

Before the elections in 2006, the established parties cooperated
in boycotting the Sweden Democrats and other “xenophobic” parties. In one of
many similar incidents, which extreme Leftists bragged about on the Internet,
around 30 members of the SD were attacked during a peaceful, private party
outside the town of Växjö. The brave “anti-Fascists” threw tear gas into the
building, forcing people outside where they were beaten with iron bars and axes.
Open, aggressive and sometimes violent harassment of critics of the country’s
immigration policies has been going on for years while the authorities have
largely turned a blind eye to the problem. Seemingly encouraged by the silence
from the establishment to political violence, extreme Leftists have stepped up
their attacks to include mainstream parties. Sweden
is witnessing the greatest explosion of street violence in its history, and a
woman is raped every two hours. Expo, which is backed by the media and the major
parties, has been campaigning against the Sweden Democrats for years. Daniel
Poohl from the unelected organization Expo states that it’s “not undemocratic”
to deny the SD access to political influence.

According to Jonathan
Friedman, an American Jew working in Sweden for years, “no debate about
immigration policies is possible, the subject is simply avoided. Sweden has such
a close connection between the various powerful groups, politicians,
journalists, etc. The political class is closed, isolated.” The elites are
worried to see their power slip away and therefore want to silence critics, for
instance the Sweden Democrats, a small party opposed to immigration: “It is a
completely legal party, they just aren’t allowed to speak.…In reality, the basis
of democracy has been completely turned on its head. It is said: ‘Democracy is a
certain way of thinking, a specific set of opinions, and if you do not share
them, then you aren’t democratic, and then we condemn you and you ought to be
eliminated. The People? That is not democratic. We the Elite, we are democracy.’
It is grotesque and it certainly has nothing to do with democracy, more like a
kind of moral dictatorship.”

As Bruce Bawer writes in the article While Sweden
Slept: “Sweden Democrats have been the targets of events that recall
China’s Cultural Revolution. Staged ‘people’s protests’ by members of the ‘youth
divisions’ of other parties have led to the firing of Sweden Democrats from
their jobs. A few weeks ago, a junior diplomat was dismissed when it became
known that he was a member of the party and had criticized his country’s
immigration policy. On several occasions, thugs loyal to the ruling parties have
broken up SD meetings and beaten up party leaders.”

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Israel's ambassador to Sweden has been summoned by Sweden's foreign office to
discuss the diplomatic discord following an article in a national newspaper
claiming Israeli soldiers harvest the organs of dead Palestinians. The
diplomatic spat has its source in the decision by the Aftonbladet
newspaper to publish the article which details allegations of the systematic
harvesting of the organs of Palestinian men. The Israeli foreign minister
Avigdor Lieberman compared the allegations to old antisemitic lies. "It is
regrettable that the Swedish foreign ministry does not intervene when it comes
to a blood libel against Jews, which reminds one of Sweden's conduct during
World War II when it also did not intervene," an Israeli government statement
quoted Lieberman as saying.

Sweden's foreign minister Carl
Bildt has rejected calls from Israel for the government to distance itself
from the newspaper article. Writing on his blog,
Bildt argues that Sweden's free press and tradition of free speech are the best
defense against "breaches of judgment, bad taste and transgressions of core
societal values." "There are calls from some quarters in Israel that we in some
way or another should take an official position to distance ourselves from this
article or even to intervene to prevent such an article being published," Bildt
states. "But our country does not work that way - and neither should it." The
foreign minister concludes by defending the importance of protecting free
speech.

The fact that the anti-Israeli and anti-American writer Helle
Klein, for many years the political editor of Aftonbladet, at her blog
also speaks warmly of "free speech" is such an extreme case of hypocrisy that it
simply cannot go unanswered. Free speech does not exist in Sweden. Although some
countries such as Britain and Belgium are trying hard to claim the title, I
would personally rate Sweden as being probably the most totalitarian and
politically repressive country in the entire Western world as of 2009, and
Aftonbladet has made substantial contributions to this repressive
climate. Sweden has huge problems caused by mass immigration, and Muslim
immigration in particular, but speaking honestly about this is absolutely taboo
among the mainstream media. According to journalist Karen Jespersen,
Helle Klein has stated that "If the debate is [about] that there are problems
caused by refugees and immigrants, we don't want it." Opinion polls have
revealed that two out of three Swedes doubt whether Islam can be combined with
Swedish society, yet not one party represented in parliament has been genuinely
critical of the immigration policies, and there is virtually no real debate
about Multiculturalism and Islam.

As I have stated in my essay Why Europeans Should Support
Israel, the demonization of Israel should be rejected not just because
of Israel, but because of Europe. The very same people who are demonizing
Israelis are also demonizing native Europeans who resist the Islamization of
their lands and the state-sponsored colonization of their countries by alien
peoples. The truth is that Israelis defend themselves so that their daughters do
not have to suffer rape at the hands of Muslim Jihadists, the way the
authorities in Western European countries, and in Sweden in particular, allow to
happen every single day. Here are a few relevant quotes from the chapter The
Case of Sweden, taken from my book Defeating
Eurabia. I suggest that Israelis send some of these quotes to
Aftonbladet, Helle Klein and Carl Bildt and challenge them with the
information it contains:

The Swedish organization
Expo has demonstrated a willingness to “share information” with radical groups
of “anti-Fascists” in Antifascistisk Action (AFA). The thugs of AFA in the
spring of 2008 destroyed
the car of an elderly woman and wrote “nasse“ (Nazi) on top of it. As it
turned out, they picked the wrong car. Yet years of such attacks against private
citizens have not prompted the authorities to crack down on their
activities.

Leading newspaper Aftonbladet has close ideological
ties to the Social Democrats, the country’s dominant party for most of the past
century. Helle Klein, its political editor-in-chief from 2001 to 2007, during a
demonstration organized by Islamic and anti-racist organizations in December
2006 stood in front of a banner which read “A Sweden for all - Stop the Nazi
violence“ and held a speech warning against Islamophobia in the media. Klein
has voiced sympathy for terrorist organization Hamas
in her editorials while warning against the threat posed to world peace by
Israeli aggression and the Christian Right in the USA.
Hamas is a Fascist organization openly calling for mass murder of Jews. Violent
attacks against Jews in Europe in 2008 are to an overwhelming degree caused by
Muslim immigration, which is encouraged by the EU and the national political
elites. The irony of warning against “Nazi violence” while showing sympathy for
an organization that wants to finish what the Nazis started apparently doesn’t
strike Ms. Klein.

One of Klein’s fellow columnists at Aftonbladet,
the long-time Communist Robert Aschberg, is the publisher of Expo
magazine. Leading Expo member Charles Westin in October 2007 published the book
Brunt! (“brown,” as in “Fascist”), where he let members of AFA contribute
some of their intelligence regarding “right-wing extremists,” among them people
associated with the legal party the Sweden Democrats. In addition to Mr. Westin,
the book was co-authored by Mats Deland, who is a journalist in
Aftonbladet. Why is it considered OK that a representative of one of
Scandinavia’s largest newspapers, with ties to the country’s largest political
party, thus associates himself openly with an organization known for physically
assaulting members of a legal opposition party, even in their private
homes?

Before the elections in 2006, the established parties cooperated
in boycotting the Sweden Democrats and other “xenophobic” parties. In one of
many similar incidents, which extreme Leftists bragged about on the Internet,
around 30 members of the SD were attacked during a peaceful, private party
outside the town of Växjö. The brave “anti-Fascists” threw tear gas into the
building, forcing people outside where they were beaten with iron bars and axes.
Open, aggressive and sometimes violent harassment of critics of the country’s
immigration policies has been going on for years while the authorities have
largely turned a blind eye to the problem. Seemingly encouraged by the silence
from the establishment to political violence, extreme Leftists have stepped up
their attacks to include mainstream parties. Sweden
is witnessing the greatest explosion of street violence in its history, and a
woman is raped every two hours. Expo, which is backed by the media and the major
parties, has been campaigning against the Sweden Democrats for years. Daniel
Poohl from the unelected organization Expo states that it’s “not undemocratic”
to deny the SD access to political influence.

According to Jonathan
Friedman, an American Jew working in Sweden for years, “no debate about
immigration policies is possible, the subject is simply avoided. Sweden has such
a close connection between the various powerful groups, politicians,
journalists, etc. The political class is closed, isolated.” The elites are
worried to see their power slip away and therefore want to silence critics, for
instance the Sweden Democrats, a small party opposed to immigration: “It is a
completely legal party, they just aren’t allowed to speak.…In reality, the basis
of democracy has been completely turned on its head. It is said: ‘Democracy is a
certain way of thinking, a specific set of opinions, and if you do not share
them, then you aren’t democratic, and then we condemn you and you ought to be
eliminated. The People? That is not democratic. We the Elite, we are democracy.’
It is grotesque and it certainly has nothing to do with democracy, more like a
kind of moral dictatorship.”

As Bruce Bawer writes in the article While Sweden
Slept: “Sweden Democrats have been the targets of events that recall
China’s Cultural Revolution. Staged ‘people’s protests’ by members of the ‘youth
divisions’ of other parties have led to the firing of Sweden Democrats from
their jobs. A few weeks ago, a junior diplomat was dismissed when it became
known that he was a member of the party and had criticized his country’s
immigration policy. On several occasions, thugs loyal to the ruling parties have
broken up SD meetings and beaten up party leaders.”